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Intel joins troll-blocking club
Patent pals with MS, IBM, Cisco Intel is diving into a patent pool in hopes of avoiding future troll attacks.…
Continue reading »El Reg sparks international incident with Olympics committee
Flips out over Cisco comment El Reg has sparked an international crisis of gun-boat proportions. Seems we’ve raised the hackles of the US Olympic Commission in our article, Cisco mobilizes US Olympics audience .…
Continue reading »Cisco leaps into hosted email, social networking
Lands on partners’ toes Cisco has thrown down the gauntlet at new rivals and old partners alike on Monday, in a barrage of collaboration product debuts and updates, including a hosted email service and foray into enterprise social networking.…
Continue reading »UK out of tune on P2P filesharing
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “As the UK continues to oppose users rights in the Telecoms Package, opposition is gathering at home and rifts in the government line are appearing,” writes Monica Horten in IPTegrity.com . The UK government is divided on its so-called P2P policy, “which seeks to use hi-tech means to get the broadband providers to enforce copyright on the Internet,” she says, continuing »»» Ben Bradshaw (right), the Culture Secretary, speaking to a Parliamentary Select Committee, stated that a court order would need to be obtained before users’ access could be suspended. A week later, Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, said that users will simply be informed in advance, with a right to appeal.
Continue reading »Is P2P Dead? Not So Fast
Network security vendor Arbor Networks has been drumming up publicity for its upcoming Internet Observatory Report this week. One of the widely reported tidbits is that P2P has “declined dramatically in the last two years,” and that it has been replaced by YouTube and other streaming video sites. Wired News took away from the report that “P2P is dead,” and ReadWriteWeb ran with the title: “So long, P2P, Hello Streaming Media.” Findings like these are puzzling to anyone who’s been frequenting any of the big torrent sites lately.
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